Ken Burns said that, in a way, he doesn't pick the topics he examines in his movies. Instead, the topics pick him.

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions.

Tell us a few things about what you like, and we’ll give you a spot-on recommendation. By Jennifer HarlanAliza Aufrichtig and Rebecca Lieberman Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench ...